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BYMX Championship - Round Five - Finningley
21 July 2010
Lamb's to the Slaughter
Trackside a raft of high quality performances
from Albie Wilkie, Jay Lamb, Adam Sterry, Gary
Sharp and Connor Walkley grabbed the
racing headlines. Meanwhile off track the Monster Energy
Hospitality unit and the John Van Den Berk Honda Academy roadshow
provided the interest as round five of this years Express Insurance
BYMX Championship made a visit to Doncaster Moto parc
Finningley.
The circuit preparation and dressing in South
Yorkshire as in the previous four rounds this
year yet again looked absolutely magnificent
with the ACU pulling out all of the stops to maintain
the BYMX position as the number one youth racing series.
Talking of number ones Albie Wilkie is well on his way to being
acclaimed as the best Junior 65cc racer in the country. Albie yet
again had far too much fire power for his compatriots. Three heat
wins for the London Express as Keenan Hird took the chequers
first in the other two races. Third overall went to Taylor
Hammal with James Mc Fayden in fourth, Alexander Brown in fifth
with a performance that won for him the Express Top Gun award and
Jed Etchells made it to the podium with a fine weekend return
in sixth.
Oliver Osmaston made his comeback to the SW 85cc section
following injury and a fine second place overall puts Oli
right back in the Championship hunt. The winner of round five
proved to be Scotland's Jay Lamb as he improved on his
previous round performance to dominate with a hat-rick of moto
wins. The other two race wins went the way of Conrad Mewse as he
claimed third overall. Josh Gilbert and Robert Yates stay in
positions one and two in the championship standings following their
fourth and fifth place finishes - and once again a fine effort
from Lewis Houghton enabled him to climb on to the end of day
podium in sixth place.
With Ben Howell now out for the season with a broken collar bone
the chase for the BW 85cc title seems to be between Ben Watson and
Adam Sterry. At the latest round all of the individual race
victories were shared out between the pair but once
again Ben had machine problems and Adam edged ahead in the title
scrap as he won the day 3-2 in heat wins over his
main title challenger with Ben having to settle for third
overall. A bar banging thunderous battling two day performance
from Liam Garland gave him second overall as Jack Kelly fought his
way in to fourth. James Harrison and Glen
McCormick rounded off the top six.
The Open class was in the main a long tale of woe for the
front runners as plain survival seemed to be the name of the game.
In reverse order; Jake Milward was a season's best sixth
overall while Nathan Watson finished a despondent fifth
following a race five bike failure. In fourth place Tom Kelly had
recurring rear shock problems while Luke Norris blazed his way to
his best result of the year in third; this despite having to come
from dead last to sixth in heat four. With three resounding race
wins on his card that really should have been four the fastest man
all weekend, Gary Sharp, had to settle for second place after
being docked a minute in heat two for a sound infringement.
Finally, your winner and series leader, Connor Walkley: The
team Green star had to overcome a bout of food poisoning to go and
hang tough to compete at the front and finish with a 1-2-4-2-2
card. Walkley took his fourth overall of the year and now has a
commanding 30point lead going into the final two rounds.
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